On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:13, Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > When some people say "I want to mirror PyPI", I think they mean "I want to > have a private copy of all of the files I need to install a given set of > packages I need". This is often a requirement because the computer(s) where > an installation is occurring are behind firewalls without general Internet > access or are production servers where administrative rules require that all > installation repositories be locked down.
Right, setting up your *own package index* is not *mirroring*. You do not need to mirror all of PyPI, and you do not need to mirror the PyPI metadata do do this. And the argument of file uploads has been used for mirroring as well, namely for third-party services. And that argument still does not hold water. Setting up package indexes has benefits and there are as mentioned several different ways, one being a mirrored package index, ie caching the other setting up special indexes for different versions of the software etc. Yes, it's correct, if people would just add download URLs or upload the packages on PyPI, downloading all the files to make your own package index would be somewhat easier. Is this really a major difference to CPAN? If people don't upload a package to CPAN, what do you do? Does this get magically resolved somehow? I don't see how that would work. * If you only use packages on PyPI, it's easy. * If you only use packages on CPAN, it's easy. * If you use packages not on PyPI, it's more complicated. * If you use packages not on CPAN, it's more complicated. Seems to be the same to me. And it ends with the same conclusion: We must figure WHY people don't upload to PyPI and FIX THEIR PROBLEM. Saying "Upload or bugger off" does NOT solve this problem. -- Lennart Regebro: http://regebro.wordpress.com/ Python 3 Porting: http://python-incompatibility.googlecode.com/ +33 661 58 14 64 _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
